Children's Communication Skills ― From Birth to Five Years

Pediatric speech and language therapist Belinda Buckley provides a practical guide for professionals working with babies and young children on what constitutes human communication and what communication skills to expect from birth to five years of age. Increasing their knowledge should assist professionals in identifying children having problems in developing their speech, language and communication. In addition to describing the "what" of communication skills, the text explains the "how" of such skill development from a mainly western, monolingual English-speaking perspective; one of the seven chapters also addresses bilingual development for this age group. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)